Beltran Leyva Cartel

The Beltran Leyva Cartel was a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate that was active from 2008 to 2011. The cartel was led by the brothers Marcos Arturo, Carlos Beltran Leyva, Alfredo, and Hector. The cartel split from the larger Sinaloa Cartel, and it sold cocaine, heroin, and marijuana (producing the second two). The Sinaloa Cartel, La Familia Michoacana, Gulf Cartel, and MS-13 went to war with the cartel, which allied with Los Mazatlecos, Los Zetas, the Juarez Cartel, the Independent Cartel of Acapulco, the Knights Templar Cartel, and the Tijuana Cartel. The Sinaloa Cartel infiltrated the Mexican law enforcement system and played an important role in bringing down the Beltran-Leyva Cartel, and all of its leaders were dead or in jail by 2011.